Dominique Fournier

Consultant and NED.Ex CEO & President of Infineum International Limited.

Dominique was CEO & President of Infineum International Limited. Prior to that he was EMCC Worldwide Vice President, as well as Chairman of a joint venture in China with Sinopec and in the US with Dow. He was also a member of the ExxonMobil Chemical Worldwide Polymer leadership team. He was Managing Director of Exxon Chemical in France. He was on the team of foreign company Presidents which helped the French government attract foreign investment. Dominique has over 35 years’ experience in the chemical industry field in Exxon and Infineum. He was France Managing Director. The last position held in ExxonMobil was as EMCC Worldwide Vice President. Dominique currently works as a Consultant and NED. He has a Mechanical Engineering degree from I'Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne in Paris, France.

Brian Kalms

Senior management consultant with over 24 years’ experience in helping retailers understand their challenges and opportunities and frame their responses to them. He has led a variety of assignments including strategic reviews, international expansions, business process changes, organisational re-alignments and systems introductions, with a focus on business value and tangible results. Brian’s clients include many of the UK’s most successful retailers in food, fashion and hard goods as well as a number of overseas retailers. Brian was recently the Managing Partner for Retail at Accenture and brings with him a wealth of experience and insight from the world of management consultancy.

Liz Mellon

MBA and Phd London Business School. A leading business educator, Dr Liz Mellon is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on leadership development. Liz was one of the two founders of the London office for Duke in 2000, its first venture outside the US. Her book on CEO development, Inside the Leader’s Mind: Five Ways to Think Like a Leader, was published by FT Prentice Hall in April 2011. Her new book, The New CFOs, will be published by Kogan Page in March 2012. Before joining Duke Corporate Education, Liz was Professor of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School and she served as Director of the Senior Executive Program, the London Business School's flagship program for senior executives. Prior to this Liz was Managing Partner in her own consultancy, Mellon Marketing Services.

Karina Robinson

Founding Principal of Robinson Hambro Ltd.

Founding Principal of Robinson Hambro Ltd., a board search firm. RH was on the Advisory Group to Lord Davies’s Women on Boards Code of Conduct for search firms. In 2010, Karina co-led the Board Practice at Saxton Bampfylde. Earlier, she was Senior Editor of The Banker, the IHT’s banking columnist, political & economic correspondent at Bloomberg and Spanish equity analyst at Morgan Grenfell. Her BscEcon is from the London School of Economics. She sits on the judging panel for Women in the City, is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers, a member of the Kilfinan Group which mentors CEOs of charities.

Markus Ruetimann

Managing Director and Global Head of Operations, IT and Facilities of Schroders Investment Management.

He was Global Head of Technology & Portfolio Services at UBS Global Asset Management and Chief Operating Officer at Phillips & Drew. Key professional mandates included board memberships in ISSA, and previously Omgeo, New York and CRESTCo, London.

Tom Wedgwood

Partner at Woodley & Wedghouse.

Geoffrey Wood

Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cass Business School and Emeritus Professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Buckingham.

He is on the board of US hedge fund Elliott Advisors and Hansa Investment Trust. He has been visiting Professor at the University of South Carolina and at the National Bureau for Economic Research at Harvard. In addition he is and has been an adviser to a number of central banks, including the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and City of London financial firms. He was also Special Adviser to the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons.